seeking to know and discover the call of Christ on its life, however, each local church is dependent on the Spirit’s aid and guidance, which is ordinarily experienced in gathered community. This is the church meeting, and the reason for the primacy of the church meeting in Baptist decision-making is that this is the place where the church can expect the Spirit to reveal the mind of Christ. These two poles are not in tension in Baptist theology—or, rather, they can be in particular contexts and instances,